Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the operations of its armed forces during the past 24 hours resulted in the destruction of a large number of Ukrainian military targets, including weapons depots and tanks, in addition to the downing of a Mi-8 helicopter and 7 drones.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today that at five o'clock this morning Moscow time, the transfer of all Russian forces and all equipment to the left bank of the Dnieper River was completed in the direction of Kherson, where all military formations and units were stationed in pre-prepared defensive lines. From an engineering point of view.
Konashenkov stated that, during the night, the Ukrainian forces tried to disrupt the movement of civilians and the arrival of Russian units to the left bank of the Dnieper River, and five times bombed the perimeter of the crossings on the river with missiles from American missile launchers (HIMARS), but the Russian air defense systems shot down 28 missiles and intercepted five others and destroyed them. All those civilians wishing to leave the right bank of Kherson region were assisted in the evacuation process.
Konashenkov added: Russian artillery fire, air strikes and the use of minefields stopped units of the Ukrainian forces about 40 kilometers from the area of the crossings over the Dnieper River, and more than twenty Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated, and three American M777 howitzers and two combat vehicles were destroyed. Infantry, two tanks and three armored fighting vehicles.
Konashenkov pointed out that three tactical groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces made unsuccessful attempts in the direction of Kobyansk in the Kharkov region to launch an attack from the towns of Yagodno, Kislovka and Vladimirovka, and that as a result of concentrated fire the enemy was stopped and returned to its initial positions, more than 120 soldiers were eliminated, two tanks and three fighting vehicles were destroyed. Infantry, two armored personnel carriers and five special military vehicles.
On the Krasno-Limansky axis in the Lugansk People's Republic, Konashenkov stated that the effective measures of the Russian forces and preventive artillery fire had disrupted the offensive of the Ukrainian forces, including Polish mercenaries, in the direction of the towns of Chervonobovka and Ploshanka, and the enemy's losses amounted to 90 Ukrainian soldiers, mercenaries and one armored vehicle.
In the direction of the town of Sladko in the Donetsk People's Republic, Konashenkov explained that the attempts of a Ukrainian attack had been thwarted, and more than 65 Ukrainian soldiers had been eliminated, and a tank and four armored fighting vehicles had been destroyed.
Konashenkov said: Operational and tactical aviation, army, missile forces and artillery bombed nine command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the vicinity of Novaya Kamenka and Pravdino in Kherson region, Novopetrovka, Ternovyi Bodi in Nikolaev and Ivanovka regions, Krachmalnoy in the Kharkov region, Pakhmotekoy, Klishevka and Novosiolka in the Donetsk region, and 52 defense units in Donetsk. Manpower and military equipment were collected in 176 districts, and an ammunition depot near the city of Nikolaev was destroyed.
Konashenkov added: A Russian Aerospace Forces fighter shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter near the village of Mirovka in Zaporozhye region, and seven Ukrainian marches over Golikovo, Krasnorechenskoye and Krivoshevka in Lugansk Republic, Makarovka, Nikolsky and Kirilovka in Donetsk Republic.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 333 fighters, 174 helicopters, 2486 drones, 388 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,511 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 885 multiple launcher combat vehicles, 3,569 units of field artillery and mortars, and 7,166 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.
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